Monetary Donations
We are a 501c3 tax exempt non-profit.
We accept monetary donations via check (Missouri Prison Books// 438 N. Skinker Blvd.// St. Louis MO 63130). You may also contribute via PayPal.
By far our greatest operating expense is postage–mailing out packages of books to our readers.
We spend over $600 per month on mailing costs. Any contribution you can make to offset this cost is greatly appreciated and helps us to respond to more requests. The cost to mail a single package of books averages $5.50.
Book Donations
Our stock of books is almost entirely made up of donations from the community. If you have books you wish to donate, we accept them at our office location on North Skinker, located a couple of blocks north of Forest Park Boulevard. Parking and book drop-off are at the rear of the building.
Kindly send us an email to bookdonations@missouriprisonbooks.org to make arrangements. Please pay careful attention to the book categories we cannot accept. They are listed at the bottom of this page.
Please check below regarding books that we can not accept.
PLEASE NO
- Books that have water or other liquid damage
- Materials with warped pages, stains, discoloration, or mold
- Underlined or marked texts
- Books with their covers removed
- Looseleaf material
- Spiral-bound or stapled booklets
- Former library books
- Reader’s Digest Condensed Books/Book of the Month Club books
- Encyclopedias
- High School textbooks of any kind.
- College textbooks with publication dates earlier than 2022.
Partnerships
Subterranean Books
We have been working with Subterranean Books since 2019. We are incredibly grateful that they work to receive all of the letters sent to us by individuals requesting books.
You’ll find us here every April during Independent Bookstore Day.
Belleville Books & Illinois Drop-off
Belleville Books accepts book donations on our behalf from the metro-east area. They are located on Main Street in Belleville IL and you can drop by during their business hours with your book donations.
Our relationship with Belleville started in 2025 shortly after they opened in their beautiful building in 2024. Despite our name we do serve several states in the mid-west so are thrilled to have a connection to the Illinois community.
